flamboyant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   elaborately or excessively ornamented

   Flamboyant handwriting.

Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery.

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